June 11, 2007

Update: Dan is NOT at VON Europe in Stockholm - but the Blue Box dinner will go ahead

Well, sometimes "life" intervenes in the best of plans. As I wrote on my Disruptive Telephony blog, I will now very unfortunately NOT be attending VON Europe in Stockholm. However, the Blue Box dinner planned for tonight will go ahead with Martyn Davies, Dean Elwood and about a dozen others. I've already let Martyn know that I expect to get a good recorded segment out of it for inclusion in a future podcast! :-)

As for my Thursday panel on VoIP security that Martyn is moderating, Cullen Jennings from Cisco has agreed to step in. Cullen is the IETF Area Director for real-time applications.. so essentially everything related to SIP rolls up to him, including VoIP security in the standards world. I know from our many discussions that Cullen has a very strong interest in security, so the panel discussion should be quite a good one.

I'm very disappointed that I won't be able to be there to be part of the dinner or panel, but I'm looking forward to hearing how they all go.

Full Disclosure

Jonathan Zar is affiliated with Pingalo and is the Secretary of VOIPSA and member of the Board of Directors.

This is a personal project and neither the Internet Society, Pingalo nor VOIPSA have any formal connection to this podcast. In the interest of transparency we just thought you should know our affiliations.

Why "Blue Box"?

We chose the name "Blue Box" primarily as a nod to the era of phone phreaking in part to illustrate that threats to telephony are not new - they just continue to change and evolve. That and admittedly the name just sounded cool.